The Hon. Thurairasa Ravikaran
Thurairasa Ravikaran supported the Motion on the drug problem, warning that narcotics are destabilizing districts across the country and harming youth and young women. He urged the new Government and the Police to strengthen law and order and take additional measures, with both compassion and enforcement, to protect people from addiction and related deaths.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Chairperson of Committees, drugs are destabilizing not only our districts but the entire country. Many have already spoken. I thank Hon. Rajeevan for bringing this Motion. Youth and young women are being devastated. As I stated earlier during the Defence debate, unless law and order are firmly upheld by the Police, people will continue to suffer and die due to addiction. This is a new Government; we hope it will protect the people. Please take additional measures to save them, by any means necessary, with the due compassion and enforcement of the law.
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Cite as: The Hon. Thurairasa Ravikaran. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 March 2025. No. 1742473561091594. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2456